page_title: 1914
section_title: March
hierarchical_section_title: 1914 / Deaths / March
context_page_description: 1914 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1914th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 914th year of the 2nd millennium, the 14th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1914, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
  This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrillo Princip. It also saw the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with the St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line.
context_section_description: March 1
  Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, British aristocrat and politician, 2-time Governor-General of Canada (b. 1845)
  Carlos Felipe Morales, Dominican Roman Catholic priest, politician and military figure, 30th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1868)
  March 6 – George Washington Vanderbilt II, American businessman (b. 1862)
  March 9 – José Luciano de Castro, Portuguese politician, 3-time Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1834)
  March 12 – George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur (b. 1846)
  March 13
  Hakeem Noor-ud-Din, Indian Muslim scholar (b. 1841)
  María Tubau, Spanish actress (b. 1854)
  March 16 – Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
  March 18 – Andreas Beck, Norwegian explorer (b. 1864)
  March 19
  Thomas Cooper de Leon, American journalist, author and playwright (b. 1839)
  Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)
  March 22 – Allen Caperton Braxton, American lawyer (b. 1862)
  March 23 – Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès, Lebanese Maronite, Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic nun and saint (b. 1832)
  March 25 – Frédéric Mistral, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
  March 28 – Robert Fraser, British Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1858)
  March 31 – Christian Morgenstern, German poet and writer (b. 1871)
caption: Christian Morgenstern
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